Rosaline and Romeo are black? why? - Still Star-Crossed (2017) Discussion

[–] afhick 8 years ago

It's called color-blind casting, and it works very nicely on the stage. However, if Hollywood wants to hire more minority actors, they should quit importing all their stars from England and Australia. It gets annoying after a while.

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[–] Yorick_Brown 8 years ago

It's called color-blind casting, and it works very nicely on the stage.

Yes, that is correct. On the stage...

However, if Hollywood wants to hire more minority actors, they should quit importing all their stars from England and Australia. It gets annoying after a while.

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[–] botfish-1 8 years ago

My only question would be who is lady montague as lord M is white. Whatever gets people and kids to learn about the Bard is all good. The world has mixed love and that is the reality.

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[–] honey373 8 years ago

If you take a step back into actual history, Romeo and Juliet was written in Europe during a time when a family feud would have been a very normal thing. However, Shakespeare wrote about the difference in race when he wrote Othello. It is fair to assume that the original intent of Romeo and Juliet was to have two fourteen year old kids from Europe of white backgrounds to be who was portrayed. However, we must also not forget that people traveled, met foreigners and sometimes even married them. Look at Alexander Pushkin. He was one of the great Russian poets, and yet, he was half black. He fell madly in love with a white woman of nobility, and to this day, his descendants are still part of the old line, now abolished (back in the 1900s), to the old throne of Prussia. A real story like the show we are about to watch? Perhaps.

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[–] tehart 8 years ago

The simple fact of the matter is that in Verona in the 14th through 16th and early 17th centuries there were no Black families of wealth and influence. The racial split is simply a bit of nonsense that was popular in the 1960s, and died out. Shonda is simply reviving it, and doing a bit of race hustling.

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[–] minifie-1 8 years ago

Romeo isn't in the cast list here so who plays him? The Baz Luhrman R & J had a black Mercutio but I can't say it added or detracted from the story in any way.

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[–] Norran 8 years ago

The simple fact of the matter is that in Verona in the 14th through 16th and early 17th centuries there were no Black families of wealth and influence. The racial split is simply a bit of nonsense that was popular in the 1960s, and died out. Shonda is simply reviving it, and doing a bit of race hustling.

This is Cultural Appropriation! The racist black people and their racist creator are dressing up like traditional 17th century European whites. Our culture, dress and stories are not there for you to exploit for your entertainment. I demand this show be cancelled for its insensitivity to whites and Shonda Rhimes issue a public apology.

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[–] politicidal 7 years ago

It bothers you that badly? It's a Shonda Rhimes gig, that wasn't a clue?

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[–] dubaijohn 7 years ago

because if they weren't a massive NOBODY would watch this *beep* Romeo and Juliet are white, Anne is white(and it is the ginger hair that gives it away),Nick Fury is white, Hercules is white, Human Torch is white, Red(shawshank red) well you guessed it - white(again the red hair and name gives it away). The list goes on. PC *beep*

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